License tag

#2
by Aspie96 - opened

The model is based on an open source version of StableLM under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license.

While I don't think models are (or should be) copyrightable, we'd better act as if they are, which is why licensing is being dealt with to begin with.

While the CC BY-SA 4.0 is a free and open license, it is (unlike, for example, Apache 2.0, MIT or CC BY 4.0) a copyleft license.

The model cart asserts that the license for this model is CC BY-SA 4.0, but the tag still incorrectly states "apache-2.0". It's the latter that should be fixed.

It must be noted that while Pythia versions of Open Assistant are purposefully under non-copyleft licenses, StableLM-based ones are under a copyleft license. This is ok, it's just important to be clear with those who may use the model.

(Note: if assets in the dataset are also derived by assets under Apache 2.0, this raises the question of compatibility between the two licenses. If they are directly compatible, CC BY-SA 4.0 is fine for this project. If not, GPL 3.0 would solve the issue as both licenses are compatible with it).

OpenAssistant org

Should be fixed now

dvruette changed discussion status to closed

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